❶ 2 Palestinians shot dead as attacks kill 3 Israelis, injure 28
❷ Israeli forces shoot, injure 23 Palestinians with live bullets
❸ Demoralization and Resistance: Israel’s Unseen Policy and Jerusalem’s Refusal to Abandon Its Collective Identity
❹ UNRWA slams Israel’s use of force against Palestinians
❺ Opinion/Analysis: Of course, It is an Intifada: This is What You Must Know
❻ Poetry by Yousef al-Mahmoud
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❶ MA’AN NEWS AGENCY2 PALESTINIANS SHOT DEAD AS ATTACKS KILL 3 ISRAELIS, INJURE 28
Oct. 13, 2015
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Three Israelis were killed and up to 28 injured, several of them seriously, in at least four separate attacks across Israel and occupied East Jerusalem on Tuesday, with at least two suspected Palestinian attackers shot dead, Israeli medics and police said.
____The Israeli government immediately began discussing punitive measures against Palestinians, including the closure of Palestinian neighborhoods in occupied East Jerusalem and arming more Israeli citizens with guns.More . . .Related . . .Summary of violence today
❷ MA’AN NEWS AGENCYISRAELI FORCES SHOOT, INJURE 23 PALESTINIANS WITH LIVE BULLETS
Oct. 12, 2015
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces shot and injured at least 23 Palestinians with live bullets during clashes in the occupied West Bank on Monday, with two more shot and injured by Israeli settlers, Palestinian sources reported. [. . . . . ]
____Clashes have injured more than 1,300 Palestinians since the beginning of the month, with 152 shot with live and rubber-coated steel bullets on Sunday alone, according to the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Health and the Palestinian Red Crescent.More . . .
❸ THIS WEEK IN PALESTINEDEMORALIZATION AND RESISTANCE; ISRAEL’S UNSEEN POLICY AND JERUSALEM’S REFUSAL TO ABANDON ITS COLLECTIVE IDENTITY
Megan Driscoll
Oct. 2015
Though never far out of sight, Jerusalem was notably at the center of much of the world’s focus this year, as tensions mounted throughout the occupied city. Following the death of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir this past July and a fierce reaction from Palestinian Jerusalemites, many pondered whether or not a third Intifada was brewing in the streets of Shu’fat, Silwan, Wadi al-Joz and elsewhere. Israel’s reaction to the growing popular resistance was in turn swift and forceful . . . . little has been dedicated to the underlying psychosocial impact of the occupation force’s growing repression in East Jerusalem.
____Historically, Israel has worked to undermine the collective identity of Palestinian Jerusalemites since it first occupied the city in 1967. Over the past four decades, the state has implemented a complex network of measures that comprehensively work to minimize Palestinian presence in Jerusalem.More . . .
❹ THE MIDDLE EAST MONITOR (MEMO)UNRWA SLAMS ISRAEL’S USE OF FORCE AGAINST PALESTINIANS
Oct. 13, 2015
The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) on Monday condemned the recent murder and injury of a number of Palestinians by Israeli security forces. [. . . . .]
____The clashes erupted after groups of Jewish settlers forced their way into East Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound for several consecutive days last month.
____UNRWA expressed its concern over the use of live ammunition by Israeli forces to disperse demonstrators — a policy the agency described as “excessive use of force”, which, it said, “may be contrary to international law enforcement standards”.More. . .
❺ Opinion/AnalysisPALESTINE CHRONICLEOF COURSE, IT IS AN INTIFADA: THIS IS WHAT YOU MUST KNOW
Ramzy Baroud
Oct. 12 2015
When my book ‘Searching Jenin’ was published soon after the Israeli massacre in the Jenin refugee camp in 2002, I was quizzed repeatedly by the media and many readers for conferring the word ‘massacre’ on what Israel has depicted as a legitimate battle against camp-based ‘terrorists’.
____The interrogative questions were aimed at relocating the narrative from a discussion regarding possible war crimes into a technical dispute over the application of language. For them, the evidence of Israel’s violations of human rights mattered little. [. . . . .]
____Even when video evidence emerges countering the official Israeli narrative and revealing, as in most other cases, that the murdered youth posed no threat, the official Israeli narrative will always be accepted as facts, by some. Isra’, Fadi, and all the rest are ‘terrorists’ who endangered the safety of Israeli citizens and, alas, had to be eliminated as a result.
– Dr. Ramzy Baroud has been writing about the Middle East for over 20 years. He is an internationally-syndicated columnist, a media consultant, an author of several books and the founder of PalestineChronicle.com.More . . .Dr. Ramzy Baroud

“ENEMY,” BY YOUSEF AL-MAHMOUD
They come from all the ends of the earth to sit among us
they come from the ends of the winds
they bring sickness and a hissing like sakes
they come from the ends of the snows
they come smelling of death
they come with blood-dipping knives
they bring panic and terror
they are utterly not-to-be-trusted
they are utterly murderous
they are proud of their murders, they are drinkers of blood
proud of tooth and nail
even more proud of guns and treachery
they come to burn the love in our hearts
and turn it to torture and bitterness
they bring sorrow, terror, sickness. . .
How have they come to sit among us?
—-—-Translated by DM Black

From A BIRD IS NOT A STONE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY PALESTINIAN POETRY (Glasgow: Freight Books, 2014) –available From Amazon.com.
—-Yousef Al-Mahmoud is a prominent broadcaster and poet, and former head of the Ministry of Culture in his native Jenin.

Palestinians attempt to break through a section of the separation wall Israel built in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Abu Dis, 11 October. (Photo by Yotam Ronen, ActiveStills)